Writing Apps

Write faster, cleaner and smarter across every app. Dictate text offline, translate instantly, refine grammar and tone with AI, expand snippets, clean formatting, extract text from images, manage emojis and symbols, automate text transformations, and keep everything flowing without breaking your focus.

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Notepad Menu Edition

This menu bar app lets you jot down your text fast, without disturbing your window setup.

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Free apps

TextGrabber

Capture text from anywhere on your screen with OCR technology for quick copying efficiently without extra steps for seamless integration with ease.

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Free apps | Open Source

GoogleTranslate

Translate text instantly using Google Translate from your menu bar for instant access. This streamlines your workflow significantly making your workflow more efficient with ease.

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Paid apps

Writers Brew AI

This menu bar app is an AI assistant that works across all browsers, native apps & electron apps. With inbuilt OCR that takes care of extracting text from image to transforming the text using AI.

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TextSoap

This menu bar app is a text transformation utility that offers hundreds of cleaners to address your text issues. For example, to remove extra spaces, rub out web HTML, fix quote marks, get rid of unexpected tabs, forwarding characters, extra returns, smart quotes, and more.

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Free apps | Open Source

Kaomoji

This menu bar app lets you directly enter random, populair and the latest kaomojis straight from your menu bar.

Kaomoji is the Japanese version of an emoticon. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Freemium apps

TinyTranslate

The idea behind TinyTranslate is to have several different languages and edit any of them. Others will listen and mirror your sentence in their language.

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Free apps

Pure Paste

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How many times have you pasted some text into an email, and ending up with a mess of different font sizes? Pure Paste clears all the formatting (fonts, colors, bold, links, tables, etc.) from text you copy.

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Paid apps

NotePad

Edit and write text in the menu bar. Easily and on the go, while doing other things on your Mac at the same time. The menu bar window is resizable.

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WordCounter

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Track how many words you write daily across all your applications. This tool integrates seamlessly into your workflow without opening other applications or additional windows.

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